Vista - Advanced Disk Performance

I was reading the speed up boot time performance tutorial (by a now banned member, no less) and saw that it had an option to improve disk speed by enabling advanced performance for the disk. Is it wise to do this on an installed hard drive? I noticed the optimize disk option was already enabled on my C drive and was wondering if it would be a good idea to enable the advance performance option as well.

I just don't want to lose information if I am forced to, say, hard boot the system when if it freezes up.

I had the same question along with a couple of more on that tutorial. It was long on the "what to do's" but short on the why's. Like why do you click the No GUI Boot? Why do you need to run THREE downloaded programs? Isn't there one that does what all three do? Or why was he banned lol?

Running the disk in the advanced mode will increase the performance, however if there is a power loss then you will lose data. It is a trade off between performance and reliability. If you use a disk for just gaming then losing some data will not be hard to put right. If you use it for personal or business then losing the data will be harder to put right.

If you do enable it make sure you have a tried and true UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply), which everyone should have anyway. Here in Florida with all the lightning stikes it is a must have. I have been on my computer when the power has gone off and my computer never even blinked. Mine gives me about 20 minutes to finish what I'm doing and shut down.

Hawaii is very weather friendly and I have been here nearly a year and never had a single power failure or brown out the entire time.

I guess it's better to do this with a laptop, since the battery pack provides power if the AC goes out.